"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 10/11/2014 1:18 PM, Kalmia wrote:
>> On Saturday, October 11, 2014 12:13:47 PM UTC-4, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 10/11/2014 11:42 AM, Kalmia wrote:
>>>
>>>> It appears that the amount of FOOD garbage is related to the amount of
>>>> scratch cooking one does. If someone is living on 'boughten' cookies,
>>>> canned soups, frozen pizza etc, no there won't be much for the compost
>>>> heap or garbage pickup.
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Uh, what? All that cardboard and plastic packaging from "boughten" food
>>>
>>> has to go somewhere. Into the trash can! (There's no composting where
>>>
>>> I live.)
>>
>> I meant food waste. I used the term garbage to mean food waste only.
>>
>> I am lucky to have curbside recycling, so I don't feel too guilty about
>> cans and cardboard which I term as trash.
>>
>> Wouldn't they let you compost if you wanted to?
>>
>>
> Ha! You know enough about where I live; the rules, the regulations, the
> covenants. No, they don't allow composting.
>
> There's only one trash/garbage pickup service available here, too. For
> some reason a couple of years ago a majority of owners voted against
> recycling. I have no idea why. I called to ask about how to know what
> types of things to recycle? I was immediatedly asked, "Do you live on
> Dataw?" Yes. She said "Never mind." Apparently the idiots who live here
> couldn't be bothered to separate paper from plastic from cans and somehow
> they protested enough to get the garbage company to pull the plug on
> recycling. I don't understand it.
>

maybe they were used to commingled recycling where they came from (or have
their non-vacation homes). I must say - commingled is a big step up from
"every house sort their own trash".